[Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs by Alice C. Fletcher]@TWC D-Link bookIndian Games and Dances with Native Songs INTRODUCTION 12/39
The head-band or other camp insignia should now be officially put on the candidate. All present should then join in singing the following song, clapping their hands as beats to the music as they skip back to breakfast and to the pleasures of the day: Song No.
2 Homeward we go, calling his[B] name; New is the name now we proclaim; No other change in our friend, he[B] is the same! [Footnote B: Change the pronoun to the proper sex.] [Music] 2 Singing we go, way ha way ho! Dancing also, way ha way ho! No one more merry than we, way ha way ho! The second stanza should be repeated and the steps kept in rhythm until the dancers finally disperse. INDIAN NAMES FOR BOYS All vowels have the Continental sound The names here presented, for Boys, for Girls and for Camps, have been chosen out of many because the words are easily pronounced; none of them have any of the peculiar labial, nasal or guttural sounds common in the various Indian languages, which are difficult to represent by the letters of our alphabet and equally difficult for most Americans to pronounce. 1.
A-di'-ta Priest Omaha. 2.
An'-ge-da From every direction Omaha. 3.
De'-mon-thin Talks as he walks Ponca. 4.
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